The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-10
PERSONAL.


GEN. GREELY is again in the Signal Office.
SECRETARY ENDIcoTT is on tour of inspection
in the West.
GEN. BoUIANGER's mother was Weshwoman
named Griffiths.
Rev. HIRAM GEE, of Ithaca, has given $50, 900
TO Syracuse University for the establishment of
chair of social ethics.
Mrs. ZACH. CHANDLER is in Germany with
her daughter, Mrs. Senator Hale, and her three
grandchildren, who are pursuing their studies
there.
brother, Prof Edward l.. Youmans, in the ed-
torship of the Popular Science Monthly. Miss
Youmans has always been her brothers assist
ant and companion in his studies
Ex-SEcRETARY GEORGE s. BoUTwELLs first
work which he has entitled 1.-THE LAWYER the
Statesman and the Soldier" is a volume of
essays discussing Lincoln, Grant, Rufus
Choate Daniel Webster and other famous Amer
leans.
THE Pope has already received many jubilee
gifts, including ring from the Sultan, a
splendid Sevres vase and inkstand from NJ.
Jules Ferry, vases from Marshal MacMahon,
and 800, 900 from the Prior General of the Car
thuSans.
HENRY WARD BEECHER never smoked tobacco
himself, but often presented his friends with a
pipe. He had a great fancy for amber, that
beautiful mineral so highly priced by smokers,
and never failed to buy "a fine specimen when
ever he saw it.
my PARENTS" says Ristori, "were middling
comedians. They thought it only natural to
introduce me to their art and / was not yet
three months old when made my first debut
They were playing a little piece in which a
grandfather had to be reconciled to his daughter
BY the sight of her infant child. | was put into
basket filed with flowers and carried on the
stage, but am sorry TO say that howled so
dreadfully that l was carried back to my
mother Next day was replaced by a splendid
baby doll, which performed the part far better
than had done"
JOHN NJ KApESA. whose death is annouced in
the latest news budget from the Sandwich
Islands, was full-blooded Hawaiian who had
been prominent in public life for many years.
From 1870 to 1880 he was the Governor of the
Island of Maui. Then he went rs Minister to
Japan, and on his return was made Prime Minis
ter He remained at the head Of the govern
ment for two years, served subsequently as
Postmaster General, and was Finance Minister
in the Gibson Cabinet which was overthrown
last July. Bir Kapena accompanied King Kala-
kaua on his visit to this country IN 1874, and
again made a tour of the United States two
years ago.
THE REV. MORGAN DIX completed on Sunday
his twenty-fifth year as rector of Trinity church.
New York OF the nine clergymen connected
with the parish in 1852, all but one are dead and
the number of the parish clergy has increased
to eighteen, serving at seven churches and chap
els. OF these, three have been built during DR.
Dix's rectorshp st. Cornelius, st. Chrysostom's
and st. Augustine's chapels. There have also
been built the Parish Hospital, new school
houses at Trinity and st. Johns and the new
Office building at Church, Fulton and Vesey
streets. In the same period the communicates
of the parish have increased from ,227 to $685.
and the children in the schools from 2770 to
5,01i, and the contributions OF the parish from
$4,000 to S91. 900.